to me method names are imperatives, like when we order the dog to walk.
dog.walk() = "Dog, walk!"
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that's ruby
[lady for lady in ladies if lady.is_single] just doesn't have the same bop.
list comprehensions aren't changed much. but a statement like dog = Dog(name="fido") is transpiled to the dog is now a Dog with name 'fido'
the language uses backticks for strings. it handles nested stringly nicely because of it
Can I just say that as someone who only codes tangentially to my work, code and documentation that uses the same word 2 or 3 times in an expression, when they mean different things, is such an immense pet peeve of mine when learning something new.
I'm already struggling with everything else about it, and now I have to parse out which lady is which and what the hell each one is supposed to be
object Object(object = object);
Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.
That's just Python's generator syntax. Not all that difficult to parse once you get a feel for it. Plus syntax highlighting helps.
(OUTPUT_EXPRESSION for ITEM in INPUT_ITERABLE if CONDITION)
it's list comprehension syntax, not generator syntax
It's not theDog.walks(), it's 狗.走()
Conjugate this you anglocentrist fuck!
does chinese code take up less space? wait how many bytes does it take to encode a chinese character? is it just UTF-8 or is it something else
UTF-16 is fine for the cat majority of Chinese characters. It has been standard since 2008 for C++ (at least for code that wants to be running on windows; Microsoft moved everything to w_string back then).
C# uses UTF-16 natively for strings.
Dunno about other languages
fuckoing
meh, close enough
I would imagine the class would be aDog and when you instantiate it the variable would be theDog.
"the dog" maps to dog, the = maps to "is now", and Dog() maps to "a dog", and (name="Dog name") maps to "with name dog name"
So no, you're wrong, lmao
I've already written the transpiler
I feel like I'm walking into a trap here but:
This pedant is using an adjective as an adverb.
(...)you don't conjugate your verbs right.
right is informal american english for "correctly". i don't give a shit about prescriptive rules of grammar, they're all bullshit. every last rule was created by some holier-than-thou pedant. i'm only interested in descriptive rules, i.e. grice's maxims (the thing that finally made me understand how to get over my autism)
grice’s maxims
https://www.usingenglish.com/articles/grices-conversational-maxims.html for those, like me, who did not know what Grice's Maxims are. It's a short read.
believe it or not i can't remember how it all works even though i was completely obsessed with it in college. i knew how much it could benefit me if i started applying the maxims to every single thing i heard and said, which i did.
And that brings us back to BASIC.
That Pepe is cursed
Cunning linguist, he he. I wonder if they're friends with Colonel Angus.